Danh Vo torna allo Stedelijk Museum

Lo Stedelijk Museum ha in corso la mostra πνεῦμα (Ἔλισσα)  personale  dell'artista Danh Vo (nato nel 1975). Il suo lavoro esplora come l'identità personale emerga dall'intersezione tra storie collettive ed esperienze vissute. Vo è noto per le sue coreografie di oggetti, immagini e testi, e per il modo idiosincratico in cui unisce il suo lavoro a quello degli altri. In questo modo, esplora le relazioni umane in tutta la loro fragilità, così come le forze che plasmano il nostro modo di vivere, di relazionarci gli uni con gli altri e di dare significato alle nostre esperienze.

Da oltre vent'anni, Vo sviluppa un linguaggio visivo plasmato dalle esperienze di sfollamento e di espulsione. Esplora il modo in cui il potere permea la vita delle persone: come seduce, ferisce, plasma e costringe all'adattamento. Le sue installazioni riuniscono opere segnate da guerra, desiderio, ambizione e fede. Così facendo, rivela come il potere si manifesti nelle persone, nei materiali e nelle storie personali.

Le sculture di Vo rivelano il suo fascino per la potenza poetica dei materiali: le venature del legno, la freddezza del marmo, la lucentezza del rame. Sono costituite da frammenti antichi, reliquie religiose o parti di monumenti, tra gli altri, messi in dialogo tra loro. Gli oggetti funzionano come opere d'arte, pur portando con sé i segni del tempo. Il modo in cui Vo posiziona questi elementi nello spazio è un elemento chiave della sua pratica: attraverso la loro reciproca collocazione, evocano nuove connessioni e narrazioni inaspettate. Così, ogni passaggio attraverso la mostra acquisisce una propria dinamica e un proprio significato.

Con  πνεῦμα (Ἔλισσα),  Vo torna allo Stedelijk, dove ha esposto per la prima volta nel 2008. La sua nuova presentazione crea un campo aperto di tensione in cui lo spettatore si muove liberamente e in cui le relazioni tra gli oggetti evocano continuamente nuovi significati. Ciò rende chiaro che la visione non è mai neutrale. 

foto Panoramica della mostra Danh Vo — πνεῦμα (Ἔλισσα), 2026. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Scatti di Peter Tijhuis 

Avanguardia russa allo Stedelijk Museum

 Foto Gert Jan van Rooij 

Molto bella la mostra, ora in corso allo Stedelijk Museum di Amsterdam, sulle avanguardie russe, con una particolare attenzione a Malevich.

 Foto Gert Jan van Rooij 

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The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam holds the largest collection of Malevich’s work outside of Russia, which was the subject of a large-scale exhibition at the museum in 1989. Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde is a tribute to the artist and his contemporaries, as well as the culmination of 2013 as the year celebrating Dutch–Russian relations in the Netherlands.

Foto Gert Jan van Rooij 

The exhibition is co-produced with Tate Modern, London, and the Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundeskunsthalle), Bonn, where it will travel in 2014. Each venue explores Malevich’s rich career from distinctive vantage points, focusing on different aspects of the artist’s remarkable career, including the context in which he formed his unique language, the radicality of his artistic trajectory, and his later return to landscapes and figures. Seen in their totality, these exhibitions thus provide the unprecedented opportunity to reassess one of the defining figures of twentieth-century modernism.

Organized by Stedelijk Museum curators Geurt Imanse and Bart Rutten, the Stedelijk’s presentation of more than 500 works places Malevich within the context of his contemporaries.

Not only an artist, he was an influential teacher and a passionate advocate of the “new” art. The show is a tribute to the Russian avant- garde of the early 20th century, with Malevich as its focal point. Although best known for his purely abstract work, he was inspired by diverse art movements of his day, including Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, and Cubism; his own visual language was also influenced by Russian icon painting and folk art. Through oil paintings, gouaches, drawings, and sculptures, the exhibition traces the rich variety of his oeuvre. All the phases in Malevich’s career will be on view, from his Impressionist period to his iconic Suprematist phase—his Black Square was its most radical consequence—to the lesser-known figurative works that followed.

  

Foto Gert Jan van Rooij 

Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde will unite the exceptional collections of Nikolai Khardzhiev (via the Khardzhiev Foundation under the stewardship of the Stedelijk) and Georges Costakis (housed by the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki) for the first time. Pioneering Russian collectors of the Russian avant-garde, Khardzhiev and Costakis assembled considerable holdings of works during a time when abstract art was forbidden in the Soviet Union.

Works on paper offer vital insights into Malevich’s artistic development. Recent research—in which the Stedelijk Museum played an important role—reveals that it is in his drawings that we can follow his artistic quest in the best possible way. Never before have so many Malevich works on paper— mostly from the Khardzhiev Collection—been on public display together.

Foto Gert Jan van Rooij 

The exhibition celebrates a number of milestones. It was precisely one hundred years ago that the experimental Cubo-Futurist opera Victory over the Sun (1913) was performed, for which Malevich designed radical, non-realistic sets and costumes. The opera was a turning point in the artist’s career, marking his first experiments with total abstraction. Moreover, it has been ninety years since the first major exhibition of Russian nineteenth- and twentieth- century art—the first Russian Art Show, including work by Malevich—was on view at the Stedelijk Museum; the Stedelijk was the first museum to present Malevich’s Suprematism outside of Russia. In addition, Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Avant-Garde is the artistic culmination of 2013, a year celebrating Dutch– Russian relations.

Foto Gert Jan van Rooij 

Marc Chagall, Ilia Chashnik, Boris Ender, Ksenia Ender, Maria Ender, Yurii Ender, Natalia Goncharova, Wassily Kandinsky, Ivan Kyun, Mikhail Larionov, El Lissitzky, Kazimir Malevich, Mikhail Matyushin, Mikhail Menkov, Vera Pestel, Lyubov Popova, Ivan Puni, Alexander Rodchenko, Olga Rozanova, Nikolai Suetin, Vladimir Tatlin and Nadezhda Udaltsova.

- See more at: http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/kazimir-malevich-and-the-russian-avant-garde#sthash.In5PIMoH.dpuf

- See more at: http://www.stedelijk.nl/en/exhibitions/kazimir-malevich-and-the-russian-avant-garde#sthash.In5PIMoH.dpuf